John Travolta kissed a male masseur in front of a Scientology professor, claims an explosive new memoir.
Mike Rinder, who was in the highest ranks when he left the organization in 2007, writes in “A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology” that he was assigned to become the married “Pulp Fiction” star. help, now 68, with “some public relations issues” when he reportedly witnessed the kiss.
He recalled a conversation with the stars “Grease” and “Pulp Fiction” in a hotel suite.
As they spoke, Travolta’s masseur, dressed in a bathrobe, walked into the room and kissed the actor on the mouth.
‘I’ll be right there,’ John said as the masseur walked into the bedroom,’ Rinder writes. “That was quite shocking, right for a senior Scientology official. It just wasn’t done. I think it was an indication of the confidence he put in me.”
A representative from Travolta did not comment.
Rinder claims he was brought in by the church to help squash talk about Travolta’s love life.
“Since the early 1990s, Travolta has been haunted by stories of several alleged male lovers, including one of his former pilots and a porn star,” Rinder writes.
According to the book, the organization sprang into action after the National Enquirer contacted Travolta’s team about an upcoming story.
“Realizing the potential PR damage a gay sex story would have on the perfect Scientology couple John and Kelly [Preston, Travolta’s then wife, who passed away in 2020]we dug up the sources and threatened the media with lawsuits,” Rinder writes.
Rinder, the Australian-born co-host of “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” writes that the church does not claim to be anti-gay, “but the threat of a story describing a Scientologist as gay would cause internal panic because for to a Scientologist, not being ‘cured’ from homosexuality would indicate that the technology is not working.”
Rinder also writes, “Much has been made about John’s sexuality and whatever the reality of his sexual orientation may be, I firmly believe he would be more open about it were it not for the fact that he experiences a stigma because of his strong belief in Scientology.”
A Scientology spokesperson told Vidak For Congress: “Mike Rinder is an inveterate liar who tries to take advantage of his dishonesty… He supports himself by orchestrating the intimidation of his former church and its leader through false police reports, inflammatory propaganda and fraudulent media stories. ”
Travolta’s wife, Preston, died of breast cancer in 2020. She was 57. The couple shared three children, son Jett, who died in 2009 at the age of 16; daughter Ella, 22; and son Benjamin, 11.